feis

Definitions

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n. An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.

n. An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.

Etymologies

From Irish feis. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Martin Percival and The Martin Percival School of Irish Dance is excited and pleased to announce the school's first annual "feis", or Irish Dance competition, called "Oktoberfeis" to be held at the Tivoli Student Union in downtown Denver, October 3 rd and 4 th, 2008.

Martin Percival and The Martin Percival School of Irish Dance are excited and pleased to announce the school's first annual "feis", or Irish Dance competition, called "Oktoberfeis" to be held at the Tivoli Student Union in downtown Denver, October 3 rd and 4 th, 2008.

"Item, gevin to Maister Michael Durehame, doctour in medecyne, be one precept in recompensatioun of service done be him to our Sovernne Lord, quhome God assolze, and for the rest of his feis, as his said precept beris, £200."

There were yams, taro. feis, breadfruit, cocoanuts, oranges. limes, pineapples, watermelons, alligator pears, pomegranates, fish. chickens galore crowing and cackling and laying eggs on our decks. and a live pig that squealed infernally and all the time in perpetual apprehension of imminent slaughter.